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Commenced:	01/05/2005
Submitted:	16/10/2012
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	Via del Monte, Arcola, La Spezia, IT
Website:	pathtoselfsufficiency.blogspot.com
Climate zone:	Mediterranean

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Long term volunteers needed in Italy

Project: Del Monte, Arcola

Posted by Heiko Vermeulen almost 12 years ago

Needing someone to look after our project for a few months.

We are looking to get involved in another project in Bulgaria this spring / summer, so we need someone to look after our project in Italy. You can rough it and stay in a caravan on the site, which is currently without electricity or you can stay in our house 10km away from the land, which is electricity and wifi (provided you pay the modest bills) as well as a solid roof over your head. Free water is available at both sites.

Current projects that need to be furthered are a pond, a food forest and a compost toilet (currently the latter consists of a simple hole in the ground). The land is challenging with some 18 steep terraces (average gradient 40%), but there is space on contour beds to grow annual vegetables. We feed ourselves mostly with what we grow and forage. It is a great area for wild food foraging with a huge biodiversity due to the fact that we are located on seceral edges between sea, river delta, woods and high mountains on the Ligurian / Tuscan border.

This would be an ideal opportunity for someone who has recently done their pdc and would like to get their hands dirty on a real project. We'd give a you a full intro and long-distance support as well support from a network of permaculturists from all over northern Italy. For more check out my blog on pathtoselfsuffliciency.blogspot.com or contact me via my e-mail: heikover@libero.it

Oh, and looking after our cat would be a bonus too.

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